Apartment buildings with established condominiums, housing and communal associations and private managing companies can get compensations of up to UAH 80 thousand for purchase of alternative energy sources, the head of the Kyiv council commission on housing and communal services and fuel and energy complex Alexander Brodsky said.
Brodsky said that the decision of the Kiev council “On some issues of preparation of the housing fund of Kiev for the passage of the winter period under martial law” came into force.
“This decision is aimed at supporting residential apartment buildings in Kiev, in which created condominiums, HCCs and for private management companies to purchase alternative (independent) energy sources (gasoline and diesel generators, uninterruptible power supplies, inverters, solar panels) to provide in-house systems, such as individual heating units, boiler rooms, duty lighting or recharge gadgets for co-owners,” Brodsky said on his Facebook page.
The deputy noted that a simple mechanism is provided: the house brings a bill of expenditure, an extract from the unified state register and submits an application to the chairman of the RGA.
“During the next two months, the city will reimburse 75% of the cost of such a source, but no more than 80 thousand hryvnia for one house. I hope that all participants will take advantage of this solution for the smooth operation of communications in their homes,” – wrote Brodsky.
Concerning houses that are still managed by former HMOs, in Brodsky’s words “each of the 10 management companies in districts has received 20 million UAH for the heating season, and by this decision we have achieved equality between houses of different management forms”.
The limited volume of gross absorption led to an increase in the level of vacant space by 3.5 percentage points (p.p.), to 21.2% over the third quarter of 2022 compared to the previous quarter, the press service of CBRE Ukraine told Interfax-Ukraine.
At the same time, as follows from a review of office real estate by CBRE Ukraine, in July-September the trend of the two previous quarters of limited rental activity continued. In the third quarter, this figure was only 12,000 square meters, which is 80% less than at the beginning of the year. Most of the transactions involved the extension or renegotiation of contracts and the reduction of existing office space.
“Subleasing is becoming more and more common, with tenants willing to sublease parts of their offices to optimize rent or operating costs due to low occupancy rates. Depending on the terms of the lease, subleasing is most often the solution if leases cannot be terminated. However, the volume of sublease agreements concluded remains low due to limited rental activity in the market,” Diana Kvitchuk, Head of Marketing and Research at CBRE Ukraine, is quoted in the message.
Net absorption has remained negative for three quarters in a row – over the third quarter, it is minus 74,000 square meters.
Analysts at CBRE Ukraine estimate that negative net absorption is likely to persist until the end of 2022, but is expected to slow down towards the end of the year.
In the third quarter, not a single new business center was put on the market, so the total supply of offices in Kyiv did not change and amounted to about 2.11 million square meters. About 23,500 square meters are planned for commissioning by the end of the year – in Unit.City B15 and Unit.City B6.
Low market activity led to rate cuts. The prime rental rate has decreased on average by 8-10%, from $25 to $22-23 per square meter/month since the beginning of the year. Rental rates in class A ranged from $18 to $26 (less by 7% of lower limit), in class B – from $7 to $17 (less by 22% of lower limit and less by 15% of upper limit).
“Requested rental rates are not indicative now, since the actual or effective terms of the agreements are often significantly lower than the declared ones and the difference can be from minus 20% to minus 50% of the declared ones,” Kvitchuk said.
In order to maintain occupancy and income streams, landlords continue to provide discounts, special lease terms or incentives, up to “free” rent, to attract new tenants or keep existing tenants looking to move, she said.
As a result of an enemy strike on critical infrastructure facilities, part of Kyiv has been de-energized, and there is no water supply in some areas, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.
“As a result of attacks on critical infrastructure, part of the capital has been de-energized. There is no water supply in some areas. All services are working. More details later,” Klitschko wrote on his telegram channel on Monday.
The Kyiv city air quality monitoring system has been officially integrated into the international IQAir service, the Kyiv City State Administration reports.
“Official data on air quality in the capital is available to users of the IQAir website, which forms the world rating of cities according to the state of atmospheric air. There is a network of five reference points for observing the state of atmospheric air of the European standard in Kyiv. They complement more than 40 indicative posts,” the statement reads. message in the Telegram channel.
Data from both types of monitoring points is available to users of the Kyiv Digital application, where they can also receive notifications about a high level of air pollution in the capital.
DTEK Kyiv Grids announced the cancellation of stabilization power outages in Kyiv by Sunday morning.
DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids returned electricity to all consumers who were subjected to stabilization blackouts by order of NPC Ukrenergo from 09:20 on October 22 to 00:36 on October 23. All houses in Kyiv with light,” the company said on its website on Sunday.
For his part, Serhiy Kovalenko, CEO of the energy supplier YASNO, on his Facebook, among other things, announced the cancellation of shutdowns in Kyiv.
“End energy alarm in Kyiv,” he wrote, advising to keep an eye on the company’s announcements to have time to prepare for possible outages.
DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids and DTEK Donetsk Grids also reported that by Sunday morning all their clients, to whom stabilization restrictions were applied by order of Ukrenergo, also had electricity due to their cancellation.
On Sunday morning, the head of the Rivne OVA, Vitaliy Koval, said that during the night, power engineers managed to connect most of the subscribers to the power supply, to whom it was limited due to Russian attacks on the power system. “Now we are working on connecting another 24,750 subscribers. These are, in particular, residents of the village of Zarya, Alexandria, Klevan, Orzhei, Shpanov, Shubkov and others,” he wrote on his Facebook.
At the same time, all publications continue to call on Ukrainians, both the population and businesses, to save electricity as much as possible and not create additional load on the networks during peak hours.
As reported, as a result of damage to the energy infrastructure of Ukraine as a result of the morning large-scale air attacks of Russian troops on October 22, NPC Ukrenergo was forced to impose power supply restrictions in Kyiv and ten regions. According to the company, the scale of destruction on that day is comparable to or greater than that inflicted on the energy system on October 10-12. Earlier, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said that Russian air attacks on energy systems, which have intensified since October 10, have damaged 30-40% of the total national energy infrastructure. According to his calculations, approximately half of the thermal generation capacity was damaged, due to which Ukraine lost 4,000 MW of capacity.
Power cuts have been introduced in Kyiv city and region in order to avoid accidents, the press service of DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids has reported.
“NPC Ukrenergo introduced blackouts in Kyiv region in order to avoid accidents from 23.34 on October 19,” the company said.
The blackouts will reportedly last no more than 4 hours per customer.
“However, it can be repeated within a day after 4 hours if Ukrenergo does not cancel the use of stabilization blackouts. For example, if your house was disconnected from 10:00 to 14:00 in the morning, if the stabilization blackouts continue throughout the day, the second blackout will be from 18.00 to 22.00 and from 02.00 to 06.00,” DTEK said.
The list of settlements, which may be affected, is posted on the DTEK website.
“To support the power system, we urge all residents of the region to consume electricity moderately – turn on energy-intensive appliances one by one, reduce electricity consumption as much as possible in the evening from 17.00 to 23.00. We ask business clients to limit the use of outdoor lighting on the facades of offices, restaurants, shopping centers,” the company again said, noting that it will help reduce the need for blackouts or the number of homes that are disconnected.
